How to Make a Power Bar
Yields: 10 bars
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins
Ingredients needed to make Power Bar:
- 2 cups rolled oats
- ¼ cup raw wheat germ
- 2 tbsp flax seed meal
- ¾ cup cherries, dried, pitted and finely chopped
- ½ cup raw walnut halves, finely chopped
- ½ cup raw almonds, sliced
- 2 tbsp dried coconut flakes, unsweetened and untoasted
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter, plus more for greasing
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp fine salt
Cooking instructions for Power Bar:
- Warm up your oven to 350 degrees F and with a rack midway within it.
- Grease the base of an 8’’ square baking pan with a small knob of butter.
- Empty the cups of rolled oats into a rimmed baking sheet, along with the nuts, coconut, flax seed meal as well as wheat germ oil.
- Toss them together to mix well and spread them over the baking sheet in a single layer.
- Place the sheet in the oven and toast in the oven for 12 minutes or until the walnuts brown slightly.
- Place the sheet on a wire rack and set aside.
- Lower the oven temperature slightly to 300 degrees F.
- Place the measured butter and sugar in a medium saucepan and add a splash of honey into it.
- Stir them all together along with a splash of vanilla extract, ground cinnamon and a pinch of salt.
- Cook over moderately low heat, stirring often, until the sugar dissolves and blends along with rest of the ingredients into a smooth, uniform mixture.
- Turn off the heat and fold in the toasted mixture until the latter is well coated with the syrup.
- Spread the final mixture onto the greased baking dish and set aside until it is cool enough to handle.
- Moist your hands and press it firmly before baking for about 10 minutes, or until it gives out a pleasant nutty aroma.
- Set aside on a wire rack to cool to room temperature.
- Flip the pan over onto a chopping board to remove the granola slab onto it and slice it into 10 rectangle bars.
- Wrap each of them with a plastic sheet and store them for 3 days at room temperature.
- Munch away and have fun!
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